Burton & South Derbyshire Federation.
High temperatures and a head wind prove difficult for our YB’s out of Hullavington, as
D. Nesbitt & Sons take top two in fed.
Saturday August 8th proved a difficult day not only for our YB’s but for many across England. The high temperatures and a north east wind meant a lot of south road feds were looking for an early lib trying to get birds home before the heat really set in. It didn’t seem to matter what time you liberated, a difficult day was had by many, not all, but many. The dreaded young bird sickness was also doing the rounds locally, every cloud has a silver lining, and those that couldn’t send because of the illness had a lucky escape in a weird way?
9 clubs entered 1536 birds which were liberated at 07-40 in a n.e. wind, as expected the west side dominated, taking the top 10 open positions. Congratulations to D. Nesbitt & Sons of Hill Ridware on taking 1st & 2nd fed on 1308(2); both Leo Heremans, the winner a granddaughter of their great little hen “Isla” RPRA sprint champion 0-250 miles 2018; RPRA West Midland award winner 2018; inland bird of the year in Hill Ridware and the Burton & South Derbyshire federation 2018; overall bird of the year 2018 in the Burton & South Derbyshire federation. 1st club; 1st fed Yeovil 2103 birds; 1st club; 1st fed Frome 1483 birds; 1st club; 1st fed Kingsdown 1114 birds and 1st club; 1st fed Tewksbury 2183 birds in 2019.
MARK NESBITT HILL RIDWARE 1ST & 2ND FED HULLAVINGTON
D. NESBITT & SONS CHAMPION ISLA
Mr & Mrs Jim Whitehouse & son, also of Hill Ridware were 3rd fed on 1271 with a Pitbull x van Den Bulk hen. Smith & Massey of Ashbourne had 5 together, taking 4th to 8th fed on 1258.6; 1258.5; 1258.2 (2); 1257.9; they also took 10th fed on 1238; an excellent performance.
Jim Whitehouse
Completing the top ten was K.Elstone of Hill Ridware, “Ringo” taking 9th spot on 1255 with a Belgian rung cock out of his sprint family.
Around the clubs,
At Stretton, 8 sent 187 and Jim Parker & Son took top spot on 1176 with a Leo Hereman hen. Daniel Kurylo was runner up on 1148 with a blue hen bred off a hen that has topped the fed three times for Daniel’s friend. Alan Brassington was 3rd on 1126 with a blue hen off an Ernie Rigby Soontjen / de Meyer and a daughter of “Mr Bean”. Mr & Mrs Ray Grimsdell were 4th on 1125 with a blue Brian Denney x Willy Thas cock.
On the same day 5 sent 51 to Messac with the n.m.c.c. there were sadly no birds on the day. Taking the red card on 597 was Ronnie Dakin & Son with their good two year old grizzle hen. This Roland Jansenne x Camphius hen was bred by P.Kos in Holland and was purchased at the Doncaster show. Ron was also 3rd on 463 with a Cheq cock off stock from Stan Mellor of Buxton. Well done Ron from all at Stretton.
RONNIE DAKIN CHANNEL KING AT STRETTON 2020
At The Nelson, 5 sent 141 and Clive Yates took the top 4 on 1236; 1235; 1232; 1232; the winner a FVW x Jansenne, both parents prize winners in the N.F.C. Runner up was out of a cock that won 2nd & 3rd section in the M.N.F.C. when paired to a daughter of Clive’s RPRA rose bowl winner for performances over 450 miles. Third was a half-sister to last years YB championship winner, a FVW x Vandenabeele. Fourth was another grandson of the RPRA rose bowl winner when paired to his M.N.F.C. tours winner.
At Swadlincote Town, 11 sent 256 and Mr & Mrs Alan Stretton were 1st; 2nd; and 4th on 1230; 1164; 1157; Alan’s first two were a nest pair, the sire out of a Wall, Lunt & Green cock and a Verheyen hen; the dam from Rob Pearson. The third was out of a Louis Thijs x Wall, Lunt & Green “Sirius” pairing. Well done Alan.
Litherland, Bailey & Harrison were 3rd on 1157; the sire a mealy cock bred by Davis, Wright & Sons, out of a Vandenabeele and a Dave Harrison buscheart. The dam was bred by Dave Harrison; she is a buscheart, sister to Claythorpe & Parrots “34” who whenever sent to the M.N.F.C. finished in the top 10!!
At Osmaston Park, 18 sent 348 and the Shenton Bros made it back to back wins, taking 1st & 2nd on 1190.4; 1190. The winner a Vandenabeele x Roland Jansenne cock also won 1st gold ring. Tom Chadwick was 3rd on 1146 with one bred by Mick Willis, and Glew & O’Donnell took 4th on 1144 with a van De Wouwer.
At Etwall, 10 sent 178 and Alan Peach took the first five on 1214; 1200; 1180; 1168; and 1103. The winner a Cheq cock bred off a bird from Glyn Cooper which Alan purchased at the Hill Ridware breeder buyer, was pooled up and nominated. The next two were both Roland Jansennes and the fourth a John Stretton Jansenne hen.
Over at Hill Ridware, D. Nesbitt & sons were well clear in the top two spots on 1308, both Leo Heremans. The winner was a grand daughter of champion “Isla”. Jim Whitehouse was 3rd on 1271 with a Darren may Pitbull x van den bulk. Ringo Elstone was 4th on 1255 with one out of his Belgian sprint family.
Nice to see that Dave Stone (pigeon photographer) has joined our fed, racing with Holbrook. This is a real competitive club; I’m sure when they get favourable conditions they will take their fair share of prizes? Dave won out of Hullavington and had good returns 34/38, he wanted to congratulate the fed on getting the birds up early.
Dave Stone Holbrook Winner ALFIE BREEDER OF OVER 35 X 1ST PRIZE WINNERS
A great read from the pigeon chat forum last weekend regarding the poor returns on the Saturday in the high temperatures. The following comment was made by a much respected and very successful fancier at club, federation and national level.
“I basketed 60 pigeons late Friday afternoon, 30 went to their first race, 30 stayed overnight in the garage. All of them were weaned into baskets out of the nest and stayed there for 4/5 days with food and water and they all eat and drank fine, plus were again put in the baskets 4 or 5 times overnight prior to this weekend.
The 30 that went to the race had a real rough up and I am a lot missing and the ones that came were totally dehydrated.
The ones that stayed at home in the garage had drinkers on all night Friday topped to the brim. On Saturday morning I went to take them back to the loft and not 1mm of water had gone from the drinkers, so they had not drunk at all.
I put them back in the loft Saturday morning and they immediately went to the drinker in the loft for a drink and were thirsty. So, my conclusion is that if they were in the lorry and water was readily available, they would not have drunk any anyway. So therefore definitely do not blame the convoyers, because if anything like mine they definitely would not have drunk the water if it was there or not, for some reason.
That’s what young pigeons can be like, I think unfortunately the issue this weekend was a mixture of inexperienced pigeons, i.e. Youngsters on their first race, heat, and north east winds and the three don’t seem to go well together, even for old birds. That can be the only logical answer for me”.
Food for thought?
As I write these notes I’ve just heard that the fed has called off this weeks race due to the poor forecast for the weekend, a decision which many feds have also made. The fed programme has been put back a week, so it’s Hullavington again w/e Saturday august 22nd. A good decision by the fed, hopefully give them fanciers whose birds have been unfortunate to get the YB sickness, more time to recover and get back racing?
any news to
“the maltster”
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